Privacy policy

Information about our organisation and web site

Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like Warrington Animal Welfare. We are a registered charity in the UK whose principle activities are:

Providing visitors with anonymous access

You can access our web site home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data.

The services and links of our web site

Our web site enables you to communicate with us. When you do so, other internet users may collect your data.

Our web site does not provide personal information to third parties, or third party web services.

Automatic collection of information

We do not automatically log personal data, do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals.

We do not use cookies to store personal data nor do we link non-personal information stored in cookies with personal data about specific individuals.

Data collection and purpose specification

We collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services.

We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.

Personal information that you may volunteer whilst using our services include:

Name

Telephone number

Email address

The personal information that you provide may be used for the following purposes:

Respond to queries

Newsletters

Animal rehoming, neutering and microchipping application

We do not collect or use personal data for any purpose other than that indicated above.

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, you will be contacted beforehand by e-mail or telephone (depending on the contact information held) and offered the option to opt-out.

Children's privacy

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

We do not take specific steps to protect the privacy of children who disclose their personal data to us, though no information is requested to identify whether a visitor is a child or an adult.

We do not provide information about our personal data practices in relation to children on our homepage of this website.

Disclosure and visitor choice

We do not disclose your personal data to our subsidiaries or other organisations with the exception of where required for the application process for Neutering, Microchipping and Adopting.

Confidentiality/Security

We do not give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us the following types of personal data:

Primary personal data (such as name and telephone number)

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

Unauthorised access

Improper use or disclosure

Unauthorised modification

We have implemented passwords to protect the information that we hold about you, however information submitted to us, by you, is sent in plain text and not encrypted.

All our volunteers, trustees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

Access to the personal data we may hold about you

Upon request, which you can indicate by sending an email to (info@warringtonanimalwelfare.org.uk), we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, within a month.

Although we may before require proof of your identity, we will provide the information without any charge.

We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data:

erased

rectified or amended completed

We do not reserve the right to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.

Privacy Compliance

We cannot demonstrate that our privacy policy accords with the privacy instrument as we do not currently hold any auditable data security accreditations such as ISO27001.

Privacy Support

If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy, please contact: